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I Once Had a Beautiful Homeland (1928)

I Once Had a Beautiful Homeland poster
Original title
Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland
Directed by
Max Mack
Genre
silent film
Country
Germany
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent film from 1928 about loss of homeland. It follows characters dealing with displacement and longing for what is gone.

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What happens

I Once Had a Beautiful Homeland (German: Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland) is a 1928 German silent film directed by Max Mack and starring Leo Peukert, Grete Reinwald, and Ernst Rückert. The film's art direction was by August Rinaldi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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